Mac Miller album cover.
Celebrating Victory Day
Will you be celebrating May 9? Be sure to share your photos with the #9мая, #риа9мая and #moskvapomnit hashtags.
Today, millions of people around the world celebrate Victory Day, the day when Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945. Due to time differences, the holiday is celebrated on May 8 in most parts of the world and May 9 in the former Soviet states.
The holiday remains extremely significant in the former Soviet region due to the gravity of World War II: an estimated 28,000,000 people were killed in the Soviet Union alone. Regardless of faith, political affiliation or nationality, people come together to honor their war veterans. Hundreds of military parades complete with armored vehicles, fireworks, choreographed marching and speeches will be held in various cities. To see sights from some of the biggest parades, follow Russian news agency (@ria_novosti), Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (@damedvedev) and visit these location pages:
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How the Postnormal era will change everything
Organizations are becoming fast-and-loose, reconfiguring around social networks instead of business processes, becoming more decentralized and as autonomy increases, more egalitarian.
We will completely drop the pretense of objectivity — a tension that is eating away at journalism and old school media like hydrochloric acid — and accept the inherent need for partiality as the grounding of all belief.
We will belong to our networks — which are our own — and not to institutions that require us to subordinate our interests and selves.
Families will become less Leave it to Beaver and instead we’ll embrace a broad spectrum of alternative living arrangements that include the growing numbers of people who live alone but are very social, groups of friends sharing space and other intentional communities, and non-traditional families with multiple generations living together, gay and lesbian families and all sorts of extended arrangements.
The corner on the postnormal is when we actively work to build an economy that is not fueled by growth and globalism and instead is local and steady-state oriented.
Today’s political boundaries make no sense: they are the outgrowth of royal treaties, conquest, and the misuse of resources. We should start with the natural ecological unit — the watershed — and replace the notion of provinces (US states) with those. I for example, live in the Hudson River Watershed. Locale is still relevant, so people still would be tied to San Francisco, or Beacon NY. And regionalism is still meaningful, but not necessarily the way today’s borders fall. And finally, we need to consider the world and its resources as a shared commons, and not spoils to be owned by the fortunate or wealthy.
Participative media not mass media.
A major transition to restorative and sustainable relationship to the environment is essential, or we will all boil.
And a relaxing of the failed dogmas of orthodox religions, and a more taoist reorientation of our spirituality toward the enigma of life and the universe, and a greater acceptance of the myriad ways in which people might choose to express their awe and faith.
The Summer of Gatsby begins FRIDAY - who’s joining us for 10pm screenings tomorrow? Click here to buy tickets.
Dopeness
Future Goals: Buying a bar and having Rowlf play every night from 9pm - Midnight.
My new sounds:
My new sounds:
My new sounds:
S/O to Jerry Rescue over at Rescue Season for the love and attention showed to my new project. So spacey brother
No we won’t.
Thanks to some asshole I had to explain to my kid about the birds and the bees in a Cosco.
(Source: aids-trees)
